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Dirty Old Men: Part One
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Read more: Dirty Old Men: Part OneI caught the plain daft Twinky, a flatfooted rom-com in which the craggy Charles Bronson is so confused by Susan George’s schoolgirl gyrations that he doesn’t kill anyone.
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The Not Quite #9: Platoon (1986)
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Read more: The Not Quite #9: Platoon (1986)Vietnam is usually thought of as America’s festering sore, but the Aussies also played ball by contributing more than five hundred deaths. However, whereas the Yanks like to pick at the scab through their movies, the Aussies largely left things alone in the 20th century
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Icky Sex in Movies: Part 3
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Read more: Icky Sex in Movies: Part 3We all like a bit of encouragement, especially in the bedroom department. Perhaps such reassurance becomes even more important during marriage when the same-old, same-old threatens to turn those vows before God stale
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Icky Sex in Movies: Part 2
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Read more: Icky Sex in Movies: Part 2Floating boobies: Jess and Kady Tyler in Butterfly (1982) This critically scorned, box-office disaster gives us the grown-up debut of Pia Zadora, an ‘actress’ that you would love to overhear gabbing with Madonna about their storied attempts to become movie stars.
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Icky Sex in Movies: Part One
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Read more: Icky Sex in Movies: Part OneSometimes it’s hard to believe what other people get up to when it comes to their nether regions. The early twentieth century child killer Albert Fish liked to soak balls of wool in lighter fluid, shove them up his bum and set fire to them. That was when he wasn’t driving needles into his groin…
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White Heat (1949)
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Read more: White Heat (1949)Goodfellas’ Joe Pesci won an Oscar for his Spider-squashing portrayal of a nutso mobster but when it comes to wiping people out he pales next to his forerunner, the similarly dwarfish Cagney. Good grief, the insane Cagney is a one-man army of death.
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Naughty Postcards from a Hungarian Trashmeister
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Read more: Naughty Postcards from a Hungarian TrashmeisterSordid glory. Would you call that the defining trait of writer Joe Eszterhas’ distinctive body of work? After all, this is the man who cooked up Basic Instinct, Sliver and Showgirls in his steamy, body-filled kitchen. Most screenwriters dawdle in obscurity, even if their creative juice results in a colossal hit, but Eszterhas gained notoriety…
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Starring Debuts #25: Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future (1985)
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Read more: Starring Debuts #25: Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future (1985)Fox was a lightweight actor, his limitations exposed whenever he took on stuff with any gravity, such as a rape-objecting grunt in Casualties of War or a cokehead loser in Bright Lights, Big City. Man, does he not sit right in those two flicks, but as a bewildered Californian schoolboy frantically trying to save his…
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Starring Debuts # 24: Sissy Spacek in Badlands (1973)
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Read more: Starring Debuts # 24: Sissy Spacek in Badlands (1973)Some people need a good, hard slap to wake them the fuck up and there would be no more deserving recipient than Holly Sargis (Spacek). She’s vapid, easily led and amoral, a freckled, baton-twirling fifteen-year-old girl who barely mutters a word of protest during the murder of her father. “Are you gonna be OK?” she…
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Fucked-Up Films #13: Spetters (1980)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #13: Spetters (1980)Synopsis: A rough and raw portrayal of young Dutch lives Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Hans van Tongeren, Renée Soutendijk, Toon Agterberg, Maarten Spanjer, Marianne Boyer, Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Peter Tuinman Verhoeven can’t do too much wrong in my eyes, probably because he’s one of the most politically incorrect filmmakers of all time. Now in…